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Butterflies
Pearl Crescents. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Common Buckeye American Lady American Snouts. Last Saturday, I saw at least 8 in Prospect Park, always around their favored Hackberry trees. Question Mark
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Raptor Wednesday
One month or so after fledging, the young American Kestrels are out and about, usually found by their plaintive cries. This one was hovering over Lizard Hill. (That’s what I’d call it if I was a Kestrel!) These two were by the Civil War soldiers monument. By the Sophie Calle exhibit, a.k.a. Woodchuck Hill. On…
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Biodiversity
There’s a new report out by the New York City Biodiversity Task Force on how our wild future needs us. “Oaks, Our City, and Us” lays out a vision for how NYC can better support nature in every neighborhood. The city does not currently have a biodiversity strategy, another reason the reign of the ruling…
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Groupings
A couple of bees. Pug Moth caterpillar, bee, plant bug. Foraging bee walks right over immobile lizard. Another bee, of three while I watched, doesn’t stir the lizard. A mess of small rove beetles and a larger (half-inch at best) beetle enjoy some fungus. I think the larger one is Eustrophopsis bicolor. This Two-spotted Diaperis…
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Black Swallowtails
Papilio polyxenes female on Butterfly Milkweed. How apropos. Here’s a male… or maybe two of them. ( Lots of flittering about when it comes to these things.) And two of the caterpillars.
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Raptor Wednesday
This female American Kestrel is not the same as this one. I think this one is a daughter of the first. Daughter with her brother. Here is that brother with his father. A closer look at dad. (All this within 30 minutes!)
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Once More into the Milkweed!
An investigation revealed this to be a Bilobed Looper Moth/Megalographa biloba, dead of unknown causes, being recycled by ants. Just sitting out on a Common Milkweed leaf.
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